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3rd of May 1324. France's Consistori del Gay Saber holds its first annual contest to determine the best poet in the Kingdom. Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari wins the first prize, the "violeta d'aur". The contest continues for 160 years, ceasing in 1484.

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20th of April 1324. Boleslaw III, Duke of Wroclaw, declares his Polish duchy to be a vassal of the Holy Roman Empire as part of a defense agreement made with Ludwig the Bavarian, King of Germany.

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15th of April 1324. The coronation of King Hugh IV of Cyprus, nephew of the late King Henry II, takes place at the Cathedral of Saint Sophia in Nicosia.

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6th of April 1324. Ghazi Orkhan succeeds his father Osman I as ruler of the Ottoman Turks.

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31st of March 1324. Hugh IV becomes the new King of Cyprus upon the death of his father, King Henry II. Hugh also inherits Henry's nominal title of "King of Jerusalem".

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26th of March 1324. Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France, dies of injuries after falling from a carriage while she and King Charles IV of France were riding from Paris and Avignon. After she fell, she had gone into labour and given birth prematurely to a daughter, who died shortly afterward.

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23rd of March 1324. Pope John XXII excommunicates Ludwig the Bavarian, King of the Germans, as Ludwig had not sought papal approval during his conflict against his rival Frederick the Fair. Ludwig, in turn, declares the pope a heretic.

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Ralph Basset, 2nd Baron Basset of Drayton: By 15 March 1324, Basset was recalled to England and removed from his office (Seneschal of Gascony).

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5th of March 1324. Fife: A son and heir, David, is born to King Robert.

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29/2/1324. Battle of Lucocisterna: Aragonese forces led by Prince Alfonso defeat a Pisan army, which is disembarked near the area of Capoterra. During the battle, Alfonso loses some 150 knights. On the same day, a Pisan fleet (some 30 galleys) is defeated in the Gulf of Cagliari at Sardinia.

28th of February 1324. Galeazzo I Visconti defeated the papal army at Vaprio d'Adda, part of the war between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

11th of February 1324. Death of Karl von Trier, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (born around 1265).

7th of February 1324. Siege of Villa di Chiesa: Aragonese forces led by Prince Alfonso the Kind captured the city of Villa di Chiesa due to attrition. The Pisan garrison surrendered after an 8-month siege. It represented the first act of the Aragonese conquest of Sardinia.

23rd of January 1324. England's envoy to France, Ralph Basset, and Raymond-Bernard de Montpezat, declined to obey an order to appear before King Charles IV of France to answer for the October 16 burning of Saint-Sardos. King Charles ordered their properties forfeited to the crown.

8th of January 1324. Died: Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and traveller to East Asia (* 1254). Due to the Venetian law stating that the day ends at sunset, the exact date of Marco Polo's death cannot be determined, but according to some scholars it was between the sunsets of 8 and 9 January 1324.

3rd of January 1324. The Taiding Era begins in China three months after Borjigin Yesün Temür ascends the throne.

January 1324. Pope John XXII acknowledges Robert the Bruce as Kings of Scots.

21st of December 1323. In further retaliation by King Charles of France against King Edward of England for the Saint-Sardos incident, Edward's chief advocate in France's parliament, Pons Tournemire, is arrested and imprisoned in the Grand Châtelet.

​1323. Levi ben Gerson, commentaries on Averroes, philosophy.

11th of December 1323. Yisuntémur is crowned emperor of China in Beijing under the name Taidingdi (end of reign in 1328).

7th of December 1323. John of Nottingham and Robert of Coventry, two Englishmen believed by Coventry residents to be expert on necromancy, begin the process of casting a spell to kill King Edward II, Sir Hugh le Despenser of Winchester, as well as the prior of Coventry.

1323. England: Walter de Stapledon conducts a major re-organisation of government records and financial rolls.

12 November 1323. Pope John XXII issued the papal bull "Cum inter nonnullos" as an addendum to the December 8 bull "Ad conditorem canonum", declaring that the assertion of the Fraticelli that Christ and the Apostles possessed no property (and advocated poverty as a Christian virtue) is a heresy.

1323. Demise of the Kakatiya Kingdom in India (1083–1323). Another attack by Ulugh Khan in 1323 saw stiff resistance by the Kakatiyan army, but they were finally defeated.

8th of November 1323. Foundation in Toulouse of the "Consistori del Gay Saber" (future Academy of Floral Games) by the seven troubadours with the aim of perpetuating the traditions of courtly lyricism and defending poetry in the langue d'oc.

November 1323. Flemish Revolt: A uprising in Flanders is caused by both excessive taxation levied by Louis I, and by his pro-French policies. The revolt is led by landowning farmers under Nicolaas Zannekin. Members of the local gentry join and William Deken becomes the leader of the revolt.

24–30 October, 1323. England: Edward II stays at Liverpool Castle.

16th of October 1323. Lord Raymond-Bernard, of the Aquitaine town of Montpezat, burns the village of Saint-Sardos to the ground and hangs the French royal sergeant who acted as agent for King Charles IV. France's government blames England's Baron Basset of the Duchy of Gascony.

16th of October 1323. Death of Count Amadeus V of Savoy; Edward of Savoy succeeds him as Count of Savoy.

15th of October 1323. Hostilities that will lead to the War of Saint-Sardos between England and France begin when King Charles IV of France has a royal sergeant place a stake claiming the French town of Saint-Sardos, territory within the jurisdiction of King Edward II of England.

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